Yahoo on Thursday announced two new e-mail domains for Yahoo Mail users worldwide. The domains are ymail.com and rocketmail.com.

The search-engine provider is billing the new domains as a way to give users a chance to register for the e-mail address or Yahoo ID they really want. For some, that could mean abandoning early selections, such as CutiePie4Ever80 or mattclark1977@yahoo.com for a new image.

“We recognize that public want an e-mail address that reflects who they are, whether they are signing up for an e-mail address for the first duration, or simply updating their e-mail pseudonym to reflect the stage they are at in life,” said John Kremer, vice president of Yahoo Mail.

Juicing the Yahoo grade

Despite the rise of Google’s Gmail, Yahoo Mail is still the number-one Webmail service in the world with more than 260 million users, according to comScore Media Metrix.

considering it has so many users, the most desirable e-mail addresses have

been taken for the yahoo.com domain, as well as for localized versions in countries around the world. With the new domain choices, Yahoo will build millions of new e-mail addresses available.

Yahoo may additionally be trying to put some juice into its type, according to Greg Sterling, principal analyst at Sterling Market Intelligence.

“Some citizens may perceive, in some sense, that the Yahoo sort is not be as edgy or cool as it once was,” Sterling said. “The Yahoo make is still very across the board, but groups of public may not think it’s quite as buzzworthy.”

Users Want to Use Their Names

Yahoo recently commissioned a survey conducted by Harris Interactive to determine what online adults look for when choosing an e-mail address. The study found that the majority of online adults (59 percent) consider the most urgent attribute of an e-mail address to be that it is easy to…

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